Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Latest fitness goodie

I got a package in the mail the other day...

& I was giddy happy.

I opened it only to hear Ricky say, "What did you get now?"

I wanted to say,  "Hey it wasn't a $150.00 video set so lay off buster" ... thanks Beachbody for taking all of my money... but instead, I just smiled & said, just wait...

& then opened up my box to find these...



Doing the P90X3 I can't do the chin up bar. 

First, I couldn't do it if I wanted to with my weak arms.
I've always had weak arms... I mean, you'd think they'd look like noodles with the strength I have in them.  But instead, they are big flabby arms...

... with a messed up shoulder...

that will never let me do a chin up. 

Not unless I let someone cut my bicep tendon... which even then,  I don't think will help in doing a chin up.

Just because... a red panda with more strength then I have

So I ordered the next best things - these bands that can strap to the door & you can use when they do the pull ups on the video.  Someone is modifying using these bands on the video so that helps figuring out what to do.


I have so far been using weights, which seems effective in itself. 

I mean, a chin up is lifting your body weight up... so if I have a weight bar with some weight lifting it up, isn't that basically the same?

It makes me sore regardless...

But I'm excited about my latest little gadget.

It also came with a poster the size of my body basically that has a ton of workouts to do with these babies.  That's exciting!

It's seriously this big!

It came with handles, with ankle wraps & the door gadget.  I'm set to go....

I'm actually excited to use them now in my work out...

& of course, tonight is more of a cardio workout & tomorrow is yoga... so I have to wait until Thursday....

patience... is there a gadget I can buy that helps me with that?
 
Have you ever used these?
 
Can you do a pull up/chin up? ... you are my hero if you can

8 comments:

  1. New fitness gadgets are always fun ( at first). I usually forget about them after a few days though...haha.

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  2. oooh these look so fun and fancy. we got a chin up bar when i went through a p90x phase and now its in the corner of the junk room. lol

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  3. My goal in life is to be able to do a pull up. LOL! It's so hard.

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  4. How fun!
    I wish I could say I could do a pull up, honestly can't even remember when I last could do one, LOL
    As I went to PT, I did a lot of things with bands, of course your system is much more fancy than mine. My PT would give me a band and instruct me to use a door, or bed post to hook it too it. Enjoy your fun new fitness toys!!!

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  5. What a neat gadget! I have horrible arm strength...I can't even remember the last time I attempted a chin up LOL!

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  6. I have never heard of these, but they seem intriguing! I would love to give them a try.
    As far as chin ups are concerned...one. One chin up. That's my max.

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  7. That looks fun! Well as fun as working out can be! Can't wait to hear what you think of them!
    xo Krissy @ Sneakers and Sequins

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  8. Those look pretty great, I can't wait to hear what you think about them! I can do a few pull ups, I usually do them on the monkey bars when I take Ashton to the park, he laughs at me but they are fun, I can only do a few though, I'd like to work on that at some point!

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